The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.”